In many fitness programs at the collegiate, professional, and middle-aged sportsman levels, circuit training has become increasingly popular and rewarding. All programs of exercise are aimed at improving efficiency, performance, strength, and endurance in as short a time as possible. Few people indeed have enough leisure time to soak up several hours of exercise a [...]
There are other widespread misconceptions about fitness that should be laid to rest.
Television and automobiles are blamed more and more for our sedentary habits. This line of reasoning is sophisticated twentieth-century atavism at its illogical best. It tuttuts our technological way of life and subtly hints that our ancestors, who never had it this [...]
Fitness means many things to many people. Unfortunately, when most people say they are healthy, they really mean that at that particular moment they are free of any known illness, do not have symptoms, and have a feeling of well-being at rest. Absence of disease is a negative definition of health and fitness.
Adequate fitness allows [...]
Defeating a nicotine addiction is unfortunately not as easy as simply realizing that you need to quit. Recent medical research has proven cigarettes create a physiological need for nicotine that is in many cases too much for willpower alone to take on. If you ask someone who has overcome both a heroin and a cigarette [...]
Overcoming a nicotine addiction entails far more than simply wanting to quit, as new medical research will attest. Few people would suggest that recovering from addiction to the notorious drug heroin could be easily achieved with willpower alone-and yet studies have shown nicotine to be a more intensely addictive substance than heroin. When you are [...]